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District Court Nominees Stalled: Jonathan Adler and Matthew Franck each have a post on Bench Memos reporting on stalled district court nominations. Adler reports the Senate Judiciary Committee was supposed to approve five nominees last Thursday, but because Senator Jon Kyl objected to committee subpoenas of confidential memoranda from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy postponed consideration of the judges. The National Law Journal reported Monday, that the week long delay will leave just one day for the Senate to vote on the nominees before senators recess. Franck's post criticizes Senator Biden for "unaccountably holding up a nomination to his own state's district court that was made by the president in February...continue to full post

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